ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,167, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to EIGEN INNOVATIONS (Fredricton, Canada).

"Texture mapping to polygonal models for industrial inspections" was invented by Joshua Pickard (Fredericton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method that includes: capturing an image of a manufactured part using an image sensing device, wherein an actual pose of the manufactured part relative to the image sensing device in the image can vary from an expected pose of the manufactured part relative to the image sensing device; estimating an optimal pose that represents a transformation of the expected pose to the actual pose based on (i) th...